Auvergne, Piedmont, and Savoy: A Summer RambleJohn W. Parker, 1801 - 351 pages |
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Page vii
... Nature of the pass over the Puy Ferrand - Start alone to cross it - Dense forest -Awkward position - Steep ascent - Black precipices - Horrors of solitude - Dangerous position - The ' Mauvais Pas ' - Attain the Col -Excessive fatigue ...
... Nature of the pass over the Puy Ferrand - Start alone to cross it - Dense forest -Awkward position - Steep ascent - Black precipices - Horrors of solitude - Dangerous position - The ' Mauvais Pas ' - Attain the Col -Excessive fatigue ...
Page ix
... nature of the fortifications - Their enormous extent― Defile of Clairée - Mont Infernet - Great expense of the works- Inscription over the town gates - Louis Philippe's name erased— Val Louise Dirty hotel - Leave Briançon 273-280 ...
... nature of the fortifications - Their enormous extent― Defile of Clairée - Mont Infernet - Great expense of the works- Inscription over the town gates - Louis Philippe's name erased— Val Louise Dirty hotel - Leave Briançon 273-280 ...
Page x
... natural obelisk- Termignon - Pine forest - Remarkable scene - The Aiguille Loulié -Its imposing appearance - Threatened by a thunder - storm - Excellent dinner - Wall verses - Italian criticism - Anecdote of an autograph's probable ...
... natural obelisk- Termignon - Pine forest - Remarkable scene - The Aiguille Loulié -Its imposing appearance - Threatened by a thunder - storm - Excellent dinner - Wall verses - Italian criticism - Anecdote of an autograph's probable ...
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... nature in other lands . Among the many advantages derivable from selecting the Continent for a tour , not the least is , that it takes a man away from epistolary intrusions . And in these days , when the fingers of the postman are ...
... nature in other lands . Among the many advantages derivable from selecting the Continent for a tour , not the least is , that it takes a man away from epistolary intrusions . And in these days , when the fingers of the postman are ...
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... natural storm is succeeded by a calm , so their late little ebullition of feeling would , in all human proba- bility , be followed by temporary repose and tran- quillity . Much of France was already known to me , but there was a portion ...
... natural storm is succeeded by a calm , so their late little ebullition of feeling would , in all human proba- bility , be followed by temporary repose and tran- quillity . Much of France was already known to me , but there was a portion ...
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Page 246 - Ah come not, write not, think not once of me, Nor share one pang of all I felt for thee. Thy oaths I quit, thy memory resign; Forget, renounce me, hate whate'er was mine. Fair eyes, and tempting looks (which yet I view!) Long lov'd, ador'd ideas!
Page 136 - Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and, as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
Page 222 - Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep, — that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and live. — I look on high ; Has some unknown omnipotence unfurled The veil of life and death ? or do I lie In dream, and does the mightier world of sleep...
Page 142 - Not vainly did the early Persian make His altar the high places and the peak Of earth-o'ergazing mountains, and thus take A fit and unwall'd temple, there to seek The Spirit in whose honour shrines are weak, Uprear'd of human hands. Come and compare Columns and idol-dwellings, Goth or Greek, With Nature's realms of worship, earth and air, Nor fix on fond abodes to circumscribe thy prayer.
Page iv - To live beneath your more habitual sway. I love the Brooks which down their channels fret, Even more than when I...
Page 270 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our Fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 117 - And angling, too, that solitary vice, Whatever Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.
Page 99 - This morning, dear mother, as soon as 'twas light, I was wak'd by a noise that astonish'd me quite ; For in Tabitha's chamber I heard such a clatter, I could not conceive what the deuce was the matter ; And, would you believe it, I went up and found her In a blanket, with two lusty fellows around her, Who both seem'da going to carry her off in A little black box, just the size of a coffin: Description of the Bathing. ' Pray tell me,' says I,
Page 139 - Then stirs the feeling, infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone ; A truth, which through our being then doth melt, And purifies from self: it is a tone, The soul and source of music, which makes known Eternal harmony, and sheds a charm, Like to the fabled Cytherea's zone, Binding all things with beauty ; — 'twould disarm The spectre Death, had he substantial power to harm.
Page 244 - Nous ne permettons jamais aux femmes d'entrer dans notre enceinte ; car nous savons que ni le sage, ni le prophète, ni le juge, ni l'hôte de Dieu, ni ses enfans, ni même le premier modèle sorti de ses mains, n'ont pu échapper aux caresses ou aux tromperies des femmes.